engore

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/ɪŋˈɡɔː(ɹ)/

verb

To gore, pierce, or lacerate.

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Meanings

verbengore (third-person singular simple present engores, present participle engoring, simple past and past participle engored)

present singular third person engores · participle present engoring · participle past engored · past engored

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo gore, pierce, or lacerate.

    deadly engored of a great wild Bore

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38
  2. obsoletetransitiveTo make bloody or gory.

    Cut out this arrow; and the blood, that is engored and dry.

    [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC

Origin

From en- + gore.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

GroeneGreeno
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APA

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